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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Bayjoo, Politique Des Races Part 2, 2019. Acrylic and resin on wood, Sapele Wood frame, gold hand painting. 75 × 175 × 3 cm. Credit: Sharjah Art foundation/Shiraz Bayjoo/Jhaveri Contemporary. The cover image is part of a series titled Searching for Libertalia . It is inspired by the cult book...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the Indian Ocean searching for means by which to complete the process of decolonization. Rather, it was inherent to nationalist thought since at least the early nineteenth century and was inspired by a series of sentiments and emotions that call for further scholarly examination. [email protected]...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 104–111.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and the pan-regional trades that were an integral component of that experience. To facilitate access to the information in the database, visitors will use an interface that has search parameters for particular data points that will bring the information in the database to life in ways that illustrate...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 88–103.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to the capital of St. Denis, only returning to die in poverty on August 9, 1880. 30 Over time, however, Edmond's innovation in fructifying vanilla was widely acknowledged, as this typically random aside by a character in Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time testifies: The flavour of vanilla...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 22–34.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Memory.” 23 Ashcroft, “Archipelago of Dreams.” 24 Pearson, Indian Ocean , 6–7 . I am cognizant here of the importance Pearson notes in his book that “we must be careful, in our search for unity, to avoid negatively contrasting an essentialized Indian Ocean with an implicitly dynamic...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 May 2023
... into the forest to search for lost cattle and similar tasks. Another person suggested they were sent by this early king to maintain order at the current Great Service. A third identified them as members of the royal clan, and a fourth as soldiers attached to such a member of the clan who had lived in the bush...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., before I had defended my thesis, I had two jobs in hand: first, Terence Ranger recruited me to provide coverage for Mozambique and the Swahili coast at University College, Dar es Salaam, of the University of East Africa; then Leonard Thompson led the search committee that brought me to teach East African...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 33–50.
Published: 01 May 2023
... do. Others are compelled to go into debt and lose their lands and herds. Persons who lose their lands and herds are generally compelled to become agricultural workers or herders for one of the shaykhly families, or to emigrate in search of wage labor. None of the tribes of inner Oman...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 48–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and where they stopped, they were so tangled, intertwined—a tail became a head and a head grew out of a stomach and another tail seemed to fit into the jaws of another—all that in an unending, silent, fluid, glutinous, searching, entering, exiting, reentering, reexiting movement . . . ). 29 Joséphin's...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 58–67.
Published: 01 May 2024
... research in memory studies, Ananya Jahanara Kabir searched her own “methods for analysing collective trauma in non-European contexts,” and proposed to attend to “the local play of disenchantment and re-enchantments through which the traumatized subject attempts to re-member its relationship to pre...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 60–74.
Published: 01 November 2023
... unlikely encounters to highlight the absurdity of these borders. Coordinating these utopias in maritime areas is a way of going in search of the other. There are many surprises along the way, but I don't do it in the calculating way that the colonial explorers did. I reclaim the images created...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Ocean . 5 Gurnah, By the Sea , 14–15 . 4 Gurnah, By the Sea , 8 . 3 Ghosh, In an Antique Land , 13 . 2 Ghosh, In an Antique Land , 17 . 1 Ghosh, In an Antique Land , 15 . The very fact that readers still search for a radical politics is a telling...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the Deep) , 2017. Conte and graphite on Magnani paper, 70 × 100 cm. © Naiza Khan. Figure 4 Naiza Khan, Beached (Objects from the Deep), 2017. Conte and graphite on Magnani paper, 70 × 100 cm. © Naiza Khan. NK: I began to think about the depths we search to find the shipwreck, the objects we...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 75–91.
Published: 01 November 2023
...”), that is, lower-class Omani men who had traveled to Africa in search of improved living conditions. Arab women were proscribed from marrying them as much as they were African men. 55 Among Omanis, then, class, as well as race, governed rules of marriage. As noted above, I encountered the matter of takafu...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 May 2024
... . “ The Use of Chemical Weapons in the 1935–36 Italo-Ethiopian War .” SIPRI Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme 8 ( 2009 ): 1 – 7 . Hawthorne Camilla . “ In Search of Black Italia: Notes on Race, Belonging, and Activism in the Black Mediterranean .” Transition , no. 123 ( 2017...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 85–99.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., whose archipelagic and oceanic vision was extremely inspiring. 30 Using timbers from the mountains, Tao people carve a boat called tatara and set out in search of flying fish, sometimes diving in to catch them with their bare hands. Amid the great political pressure of domination from the Han...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2024
... liberated Africans Zanzibaris Amakhuwa Durban Mozambique A search for origins has been central to postcolonial aspirations for recognition by descendants of people enslaved and dispersed through the slave trade and its aftermath. Strivings for identity and community beyond the experience...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 2–25.
Published: 01 November 2023
... reciprocal free trade; the right of British subjects to travel freely, reside, and hire labor in Madagascar; the appointment of a British Resident Agent in Antananarivo and a Malagasy counterpart in Port Louis; a ban on slave exports; the right of the British Navy to search any vessel in Malagasy waters...
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